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More Tea, Vicar is the weekly podcast on culture, theology and life from B&A church, Bristol. Every week James & Wayne sit down and talk about a live issue and how we, as followers of Jesus, can respond.
James and Wayne discuss Banksy's latest art piece, how to understand those not like ourselves by looking at Genesis and Acts. For some reason the recording cut off but the end is supposed to be break down those barriers.
We are back from the summer! James and Wayne are sitting down to discuss how when we say yes to Jesus we see more without being overwhelmed.
This Sunday we had a special episode of MTV? where James and Wayne were live from sharing the vision for B&A and about giving.If you're new to B&A find out more here: babristol.org/newhere
James and Wayne discuss where accusations are followed by action rather than innocent until proven guilty.
James and Wayne talk about the impact that the shock of a sudden death can have on us and how the cross is the frame work we need.
James and Wayne take a deep dive into the differences between volunteering and serving. Where the words come from and how they are used within our culture. But which is the right word to use in church?
One is optional, has connotations of guilt and is task focused, the other is grace shaped, about putting other people first and expressing your love for Jesus, it is worship.
Stories have always been a powerful way that humans have learned, remembered and been changed. James and Wayne delve into how culture tells stories, the reformation and how we can use stories for the kingdom
Spoiler alert... never!
This week, Wayne and James sit down to discuss the recent happenings from the football world, looking at Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold who's leaving of the club sparked an intense wave of emotions among fans.
Join Wayne and James as they unpack topics like relational loyalty, expectations of people and covenant vs contract.
Every so often, James and Wayne take on a live MTV session, where they answer questions from the congregation in real-time. This time, the questions focused heavily on global politics, tariffs, and self-interested leaders. Wayne and James dive into these topics, exploring them through the lenses of culture, theology, and life.
In the news this week we read about a group of scientists in Antarctica who have fallen out and are stuck together waiting for a rescue. James and Wayne unpack what that story tell us about human nature and what lessons are there for us back in the 'normal' world.
James and Wayne are back from a short break and talk about what it means to follow the greatest commandment in a world where people are encouraged to have 'main character energy'.
The King took Sir Keir Starmer to see his beautiful new town in Cornwall this week. Afterwards Sir Keir said he wants to build another 120 towns like it.
Why do we long for beauty in our communities, what does good design reveal about humanity and the Creator and does excellence matter in things we do?
This week James and Wayne talk about the Premier League footballer, Marc Guehi, who wrote 'Jesus loves you' on his pride armband and what this tells us about inclusion, difference and good conversation.
Boris Johnson said some thing this week and he blamed the church for them. We talk about why he might have done that, what he missed out on and how we think about the why behind issues in a post Christian culture.
A story about 132 hamsters getting loose on a plane got the guys thinking about small things and why they really matter in life and in faith.
James and Wayne discuss what the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the fact that Gary Lineker is ending his time as the presenter of Match of the Day tell us about our culture? What do we look for in certain public positions and why? How does this link to the good news of Jesus for us and for our culture?
Who is president of the United States is a big deal, not just for Americans but for everyone. James and Wayne talk about how we should think about the election from a UK perspective, what difference Christian faith makes and how then we should pray for the new president.
Wayne and James discuss recent decisions around the availability of life-extending drugs and how our reactions to those decisions expose what we think about life.
It's been a while but the vicars are back! This week, we’ll be engaging in a thoughtful discussion about the situation in the Middle East. Together, we’ll explore how as Christians we should think about it and talk with our friends about what is happening.
This week Wayne has a chat with a member of B&A, Esther, about the ongoing conflict in Gaza and how as followers of Jesus we can think, talk and pray about the situation. We're also joined by Esther's daughter Sehna!
If you're interested in reading/ finding out more about the conflict here are some helpful links and articles recommended by Esther:
Palestinian Voices:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1iMyYrqcUz/?igsh=MWh0aDR1dGRsZ3h1dg== (TW: this video contains some shocking scenes from the war)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1HUKzrIgcx/?igsh=MWM2OGVtcnVid3ZyNg==
Statements and Prayer points from Christians on the ground:
https://embraceme.org/our-prayers/israel-palestine-urgent-prayer-for-peace
https://levantministries.org/holy-land-war/
https://embraceme.org/blog/munther-isaac-interview-gaza-occupation-christian-zionism
Christian Perspectives on the Middle East crisis:
https://michaelpahl.com/2014/08/25/christians-and-israel-part-two/
https://brianzahnd.com/2015/03/christian-perspective-israeli-palestinian-conflict/
https://youtu.be/ksOyjnIN1aA?si=kr4BPPt84cdbHzMX (18m:25 to 20m:24)
After watching the first episode of Mr Bates vs. the Post Office, James and Wayne talk about how to be a prophet when you find yourself in the middle of an organisation or a culture where there is injustice and dysfunction. They do also define what they mean by prophet!
In light of the horrendous ways that death has visited our city recently, with fatal stabbings of teenage boys and the killing of three young children, James and Wayne discuss Christian beliefs about death and how to have difficult conversations.
In the light of the recent horrific fatal stabbings of two teenagers in Bristol, Wayne and James examine the city where we live and question how well we might know the place we live.
James and Wayne take you through what Bringing Bristol to Jesus, the new vision for 2024, means for the B&A church family.
Wayne and James kick off this podcasting year with the launch of "Bringing Bristol to Jesus", a B&A refresh of where it's going and where it wants to be, as a growing force in the city we love.
Following Wayne Massey’s recent Mission to Uganda as part of SOMA UK, James and Wayne discuss what Wayne saw and experienced and reflect on the difference between a post Christian culture and one that is Christian or even pre Christian. How can we apply what we see God doing elsewhere to Bristol and the UK in 2023?
Uganda Mission in numbers; 10 days, average temperature 28 degrees centigrade, approx. 3,000 evangelists from the local church, Uganda, across Africa and Europe. 200 parishes. 80 open air crusades. 370,000 heard the good news of Jesus. 7,800 people gave their lives to Jesus.
James in conversation with Ed Shaw, Pastor of Emmanuel City Centre Church, Bristol, about the recent voting by the Church of England to welcome the blessing of same sex marriages in dedicated church services.
The amendment to the motion scraped through by one vote; the amended motion passed by 227 votes to 203.
This week James is joined by Matt Southcombe from St Nick's, Bristol, to talk about how we live well as disciples in a world of non-stop media.
On Monday night, thousands of football fans stayed behind to cheer their team after a 4-1 defeat. Why?
This week Wendy and James talk about 'vision and values' and how they can make for flourishing or perishing.
Following Matthew Perry’s death, James and Wendy talk about light and darkness, addiction and hope in Jesus. What affects who we are becoming as we journey through life and how to alter that trajectory.
What happens when you lose confidence and trust in others?
Can you get it back? How can you begin to rebuild it?
Following the shocking news from Israel and Gaza, James and Wayne talk about the conflict, the history of tension in the region and what it tells us about the human heart and our need for a home.
James and Wayne discuss football, referee controversies and what sort of cultures create fear, shame and the need to hid failures.
It seems shots are being fired in the next general election. All political parties are trying out new policies and ideas in order to win your vote next year. But is this how we should build a better world?
How does our culture do it? How should Christians do it?
In their new series of More Tea, Vicar, B&A Church’s Wayne Massey and James Stevenson welcome listeners back following their summer break.
This week the news has been filled with human suffering on a mass scale; the death toll from floods in Derna stands at nearly 4000 and Morocco’s earthquake has so far claimed 3000 lives. How can we understand who God is and what He is like in a world where things go wrong?
Suffering is topical but it is a personal issue too because it can be a barrier to understanding who God is. What can we make of disasters like those in Libya and Morocco and how do we reconcile this with God.
James and Wayne talk about a recent cricket controversy and why this is really about our hearts and not just what happened on a cricket pitch.
What do the England Cricket Board and Russian politics have in common?
This week James and Wayne discuss systems and what makes them choose impunity or scapegoating and how Christians can respond to the wrongs of the systems we find ourselves in.
James has visited South Sudan and describes it as a country that has had a deep impact on him. He was shocked to learn from Sudanese friends in the UK that Darfur is back in the news as rumours of the 21st century’s first genocide circulate.
More Tea, Vicar? this week considers a Christian perspective on the concept of impunity, defined as “exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action” as the Janjaweed step up their campaign of terror against vulnerable and displaced peoples.
Outside of Jesus we are always creating division, we are always building walls; Hadrian’s Wall, the Berlin Wall, the Great Wall of China. The reason why dividing walls appear is because we don’t feel safe in other people’s presence. But with Jesus, it is safe to have no dividing wall. With impunity, we hide what makes us unsafe - Jesus wants us to bring it into the light so we can live alongside each other for our greater calling.
Why We Cancel People - Lessons from This Morning..
When ITV announced on May 20, that Phillip Schofield would be leaving flagship daytime show, This Morning, after more than 20 years, it lifted the lid on a supposedly “toxic” culture and sparked the spectacle of a chain of celebrities “cancelling” the former presenter and the story exploding daily with revelations.
But why as a culture, as people, do we need to distance ourselves from those who have fallen from grace? What does this reveal about ourselves and our society?
This week in More Tea, Vicar? we pick up on our podcast about Mike Pilavachi and how the story has unfolded, we look at biblical origins of the concept of a scapegoat and how Jesus is our true and better scapegoat because he died for us and ascended into heaven, in order that sin be dealt with once and for all.
Wayne and James talk about music, creativity and artificial intelligence. Musician Sting, animal rights philosopher Peter Singer and the bible have different things to say about humanity’s place in the world. In Genesis, God creates man in his own image and humanity is made last; what does this tell us about God’s purpose for humanity? Is there something distinct about humans as compared to the rest of the created order? We discuss how a common grace and truth that resides in all of us, Christians and non-Christians, speaks to who God is.
This week we felt it was the right thing to share our vision for our new building at 279 Gloucester Road with you, and talk about where we are headed as a church family. With our new building, we now have 24,000 square feet of faith ! We plan to share it with our community, with the Gloucester Road and with our whole city, Bristol. The next era of B&A is one church, one parish, one building….and we feel God's purpose for us is to fill this building with faith.
We want faith to rise up and grow - ultimately we want the whole city to be filled with faith - and our building is the first step on this journey.
This week our discussion is around the news that Canon Mike Pilavachi, founder of Christian youth festival Soul Survivor, has stepped down from his role as Associate Pastor of Soul Survivor Church, St.Albans, as safe-guarding concerns against him are investigated. We look at individuals, at systems, at King David's Old Testament transgressions and how God would like us to respond and how we as a church family can learn to build greater health into our organisations to help prevent future leaders from failing.
Why Do We Do More Tea, Vicar?
This week we are definitely not talking about ducks in the font, currently causing a storm on Anglican Twitter. What we are talking about is why we do this podcast; how, through More Tea, Vicar, we hope to bring a Christian understanding to contemporary issues in culture, and apply this to life as we are living it.
This week we take our discussion right into the heart of the Bristol communities where we live and work. As a church we're about to move buildings and we wanted to share the extraordinary story of how we came to our new home through God's grace.
This week we discussed Matt Hancock's leaked WhatsApp messages and why in culture and in life this happens again and again - our pasts always seem to catch up with us. We asked the question how does post-Christian culture handle the past and how do we, as followers of Jesus, see it differently?
In the final part of our series on human sexuality we look at the story of the woman at the well in John’s gospel and ask the questions do we need sexual intimacy for a full life? And what is the life that Jesus offers and is He enough?
This week we’re talking about inclusion and welcome, two words that come up again and again in debates and discussion around the church and human sexuality. Both are expected of the church by culture and society but can we actually offer both and do they mean the same thing?
This week we’re talking about Identity. One of the questions that often comes up when we talk about sexuality is that if your identity is that you’re same-sex attracted, are you inherently sinful in a way that someone who is heterosexual isn’t? We discuss the turn inward since the enlightenment, the history of desire, what sin actually is and where we find our true identity.
The book that Wayne mentions at the beginning is called The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman.
This is the fourth episode in our series seeking to understand the issues and controversy surrounding human sexuality and same-sex marriage going on in Church and culture at the moment.
This week we read an article in the Guardian arguing that those who are pro same-sex marriage think that God's love and grace is for everyone and that those who are against same-sex marriage believe that God's love is restricted. We wanted to unpick this idea and explore what living in God's love and grace looks like.
Here's the Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/03/church-of-england-excluding-lgbt-people-equal-marriage
We're in the middle of a series seeking to understand the issues and controversy surrounding human sexuality and same-sex marriage going on in Church and culture at the moment.
Speaking in Parliament this week, Labour MP Chris Bryant said "Did Jesus say a single word about same-sex relationships or marriage? I do not think he did" and so we wanted to answer the question What does Jesus have to say about marriage?
We're in the middle of a series seeking to understand the issues and controversy surrounding human sexuality and same-sex marriage going on in Church and culture at the moment.
This week we're asking the question What is marriage? The Church of England lawyers have been asking how it's permissible for an atheist couple to get married in a church, but not a same-sex Christian couple. We look at the difference between marriage as covenant and marriage as contract and what is said in the marriage preface at a wedding ceremony.
Following the Bishops' announcement this week proposing that the Church of England offer prayers of blessing to same-sex couples, a proposal that will be debated at General Synod next month, James and Wayne discuss some of the issues behind the issue: how can we have an established church in post-Christian culture? And what happens when a faith-group that is increasingly marginalised still has a significant role in public life?
This is the first in a short series we'll be recording about sexuality and same-sex marriage.
Happy new year and welcome back to More Tea Vicar! In our first episode of 2023 we discuss the the recently aired interviews with Prince Harry, his desire to call out the injustice of the behaviour of the British press and how we can be people who prophetically speak out against injustice without it becoming personal.
In our last episode of 2022 we look back over the last few months and in particular at a subject that kept coming up again and again in the news: Integrity. The culture around us is looking for integrity in its leadership and we talked about why Jesus is the only one who can meet that longing and how we can become more whole.
As always we love hearing your ideas and if there's something you'd like us to discuss on MTV just drop us an email to podcast@babristol.org.
This week we were inspired by Heidi Crowter, who brought her case against abortion laws to the Court of Appeal. We talked about ethics and how we can have conversations about things that really matter in a culture that lacks an ethical framework.
This week the Iranian football team did not sing their national anthem and Virgil Van Dijk and Harry Kane did not wear OneLove arm bands at the World Cup. We talk about what it mean for us to protest and make sacrifices for what we believe in.
Wayne & James answer some brilliant questions from some of our current Alpha course guests. From 'why is Jesus always portrayed as a white man?', 'why is following Jesus so hard?' to 'What about the dinosaurs?' there's loads to get you thinking on this week's MTV.
James is back this week and we've been inspired by Gary Neville's appearance as guest host on Have I Got News For You. Well, inspired is perhaps the wrong word, but the way Ian Hislop called Neville out for his planned attendance at the upcoming World Cup in Qatar has thrown up questions around words, actions, righteousness and integrity. We look at the story of Naaman from 2 Kings and how we can live with integrity within the mess of culture this side of eternity.
In this Episode of MTV we answer this week's big question: Who is and who isn't going to the COP27 Climate Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh next week? King Charles isn't, the new President of Brazil is, Rishi Sunak (at time of recording) is a maybe... We thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about the bigger question behind that - why we as followers of Jesus should care about climate change and how we can play our part in stewarding our wonderful planet.
This week we’re talking about the arrival of Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor and how we can tell the awkward truths people in our families, communities and teams need to hear.
This week we're talking about the protests happening in Iran as women across the country bravely stand up to religious fundamentalism for their rights and civil liberties. James & Wayne discuss the idea that regimes of fear and control use lies to further their agenda and that every culture outside of that of the Kingdom of God will tell lies in order to establish itself at the expense of the truth about Jesus.
This week we’re discussing the news following Kwasi Kwarteng’s “U-turn” over plans to scrap the 45p tax cut for high earners. Why do we hate it so much when leaders attempt to gloss over a U-turn? And how can we learn to U-turn well in our own lives?
After an extended summer break MTV is back! In the aftermath of last week's state funeral James and Wayne reflect on why the Queen's character was so attractive and the values and beliefs that inspired her life of service. What does it mean to live in a culture which thinks it can hold to Christian values without sharing those beliefs? And what are the core values in our own lives that stem from our deepest held convictions?
After an extended summer break MTV is back! In the aftermath of last week's state funeral James and Wayne reflect on why the Queen's character was so attractive and the values and beliefs that inspired her life of service. What does it mean to live in a culture which thinks it can hold to Christian values without sharing those beliefs? And what are the core values in our own lives that stem from our deepest held convictions?
This week James is away on retreat and Wayne invited special guest Wendy Massey to join him on MTV to talk about the news of the recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion in the US. They discuss US politics, divided worldviews, the biblical texts which shape Christian views on life and freedom, and how we can love one another and have helpful discussions (even when we disagree!) on ethics in a world East of Eden.
Sparked by a BBC news article we read this week about Ukrainians who no longer want to speak Russian, in this episode we discuss language and culture: Why do words have so much power? How has language been used throughout history to expand empires? And what does the Bible have to say about language and ethnicity?
What do we do when our lives are falling apart or something has happened in the life of someone we love? How can we follow Jesus and love one another? James & Wayne discuss on this week's MTV.
James & Wayne reflect on the Platinum Jubilee celebrations this weekend, the joyful outpouring of thanks and honour to the Queen for her life of service that we all witnessed, why it's so unique and how it points us to Jesus.
This week the vicars talk tiredness: why no one's talking about it, why we're all feeling it and how we can live life under the yolk of Jesus. Should tired be a banned word? Did Jesus ever get tired? And why do some of us get bored watching Lawrence of Arabia? It's all up for discussion on this week's More Tea, Vicar?
How do you make decisions? Living through a global pandemic has caused many of us to rethink how we spend our time and has, for some of us, provoked some major life changes. Still, many of us have found ourselves in recent months drifting back into habits and life pre-pandemic. This week we’re talking about the nuclear family, church and what place the counsel of the saints has in our lives as followers of Jesus.
How is it possible for good people to create bad culture? And how do we as followers of Jesus create good culture? This week we're talking about Mother Theresa, Jürgen Klopp and 4 hallmarks of good leadership.
In a post-Christian culture it’s very easy for morality and mercy to become polarised. This week we talk about how in the Christian faith they’re held together and how Jesus embodies and demonstrates both.
Have you ever thought you’d love to just go back to life pre March 2020? This week we’re talking about living life on the other side of seismic change - how trying to carry on as normal has left lots of us tired and disillusioned, who our anchor is and what we can do to align ourselves with what God's doing.
Wayne quotes Easter, 1916 by W.B. Yeats
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words,
And thought before I had done
Of a mocking tale or a gibe
To please a companion
Around the fire at the club,
Being certain that they and I
But lived where motley is worn:
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
That woman's days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?
This man had kept a school
And rode our wingèd horse;
This other his helper and friend
Was coming into his force;
He might have won fame in the end,
So sensitive his nature seemed,
So daring and sweet his thought.
This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
Hearts with one purpose alone
Through summer and winter seem
Enchanted to a stone
To trouble the living stream.
The horse that comes from the road,
The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
Minute by minute they change;
A shadow of cloud on the stream
Changes minute by minute;
A horse-hoof slides on the brim,
And a horse plashes within it;
The long-legged moor-hens dive,
And hens to moor-cocks call;
Minute by minute they live:
The stone's in the midst of all.
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven's part, our part
To murmur name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come
On limbs that had run wild.
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse—
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
This week we’re talking about some B&A family news. We recently shared that an opportunity has come up for a buildings exchange with Horfield Baptist Church at 279 Gloucester Road and our Gloucester Road building at 160a. Wayne & James talk us through how we got here, next steps and how we can all step out in faith in every aspect of our lives.
Why are we afraid to say what we think? This week James & Wayne talk about how Boris Johnson addressed the transgender debate around sport and medical ethics last week and how fear affects our discussions with our friends.
Following last week's episode on the fallout from the slap at the Oscars, James and Wayne talk about what the Bible says sin is and why we need to take it seriously. Don't worry there is some really good news in this for all of us!
This week the news has blown up over the moment when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars after he made a joke about his wife. We talk about cancel culture, scapegoats and life in the kingdom of the Prince of Peace on this week’s MTV.
James and Wayne discuss the situation in Ukraine and talk through the traditional Christian understanding of how the church has understood when and how to go to war.
This week, as 1.5 million Ukrainians have fled their homes, we’re discussing evil; how we can be complicit with it, and how we live in the now and not yet as followers of Jesus.
This week we're discussing the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how we as disciples of Jesus can process the news, pray for the countries involved, and act to make a difference.
Be who you want to be, do whatever you want, the world is your oyster - were you told this at primary school too? This week we’re talking about what the Bible has to say about our gifts and passions, our limitations, God’s purposes for us, and how that plays out in the body, His church.
What Partygate, the NHS vaccine mandate and Mason Greenwood have in common: this week we’re discussing how we exercise our freedom and where boundaries come into play for us as followers of Jesus living in a post-Christian culture.
B&A MTV? \ E.96More Tea, Vicar?Episode 96James and Wayne discuss the recent allegations of blackmail against Boris Johnson and the power of servant leadership in this episode of More Tea Vicar, recorded live at the Gathering.In this week’s episode, Wayne and James look at what motivates us. Recent allegations of blackmail made against the Prime Minister haven’t been dismissed out of hand. Why is that? Well, it probably says something about how we feel about the PM - is he in this for us or is he in this for him? Would he do anything for power?
Looking a little further into the situation, we can see how our own failings can be quite similar, even if we wouldn’t like to admit that. If we think about our motivations for leadership and influence, what do they tell us? We can even find ourselves in a situation where we have read someone like Simon Sinek (Leaders Eat Last) and yet, still, be doing it for all the wrong reasons.
What we need is for God to create in us a new heart, so that, like Jesus, we can interact with the world in a way that shows that we have come to serve.
The survey in The Times at the weekend that Wayne referenced can be found here.
James talked about Simon Sinek's popular book on leadership, Leaders Eat Last.
The account of King David we referenced is found in 2 Samuel chapters 11 and 12.
In this week’s More Tea Vicar James and Wayne are discussing the ethics surrounding a man who once stabbed someone, leaving them paralysed but who has recently received the first ever pig’s heart transplant in a bid to save his life.
In this week's MTV, James & Wayne take a look back over Love Christmas and discuss sacrificial giving and how we can give God the glory.
Less than 2 thousands years ago there existed a world in which the care of the most vulnerable was not considered the collective responsibility of the society in which people lived - fast forward to today and we are (rightly) appalled by the tragic killing of little Arthur. Wayne and James discuss how Christian thinking has pervaded the western world, what leads us to know the difference between right and wrong, and why Advent is the season to be the people of light in the darkness.
Are there passages of the Bible you read that make you wince? In this week's MTV James and Wayne discuss how we read scripture with a cultural lens, how different cultures receive different doctrines and what Jesus teaches us in Matthew 25. With stories from life and interesting facts about sheep and goats in the Middle East all over a quick cup of tea.
After Manchester United fired their manager last week James and Wayne discuss the fine line between holding your tongue and speaking the truth in love, and how Jesus models true love.
It’s all blown up in Cricket this week over racism - James & Wayne discuss how Jesus handles our failings and our path to restitution.
Ever wondered why Jesus came to earth 2000 years ago and not now? In another of our Alpha Sessions on MTV, the vicars have a go at answering some questions asked by guests on our current Alpha course.
This week's MTV podcast is all about climate change, creation and a challenge to live sacrificially.
James and Wayne answer some of the questions asked by guests from our current Alpha Courses.
After the tragic murder of Sir David Amess, James and Wayne talk about how we respond to evil.
James and Wayne discuss the origins of violence against women and and how the church can respond to recent events.
Where’s the petrol gone? James and Wayne discuss life with limits on this week’s More Tea, Vicar podcast.
Guests from our most recent Alpha course sent in their other questions about life to the Vicars. Here’s some of their responses..
Guests from our most recent Alpha course sent in their other questions about life to the Vicars. Here’s some of their responses..
Guests from our most recent Alpha course sent in their other questions about life to the Vicars. Here’s some of their responses..
What to think about a conflict that, if we're honest, we don't really know all the details on.
May 17th sees the returns of hugs in England. James and Wayne talk about why that matters so much to us and what it tells us about us and God.
Why THAT ending told us something we don't always want to hear.
Spoiler Alert - this MTV contains spoilers
Wayne and James look at why we want heroes and villains and what it means for our own relationships.
Wayne and James start a new series on THAT interview starting with Culture and how it makes for relational breakdown.
Wayne catches up with Adam and Abby Smith to hear more about their move to Newcastle and how they have seen God at work in that.
In this special edition of More Tea, Vicar?, Wayne and James take a conversation to The Weekly Service at BA
Why the world and the media have got the refugee crisis wrong and how we can respond as Christians.
James and Wayne introduce some of the language we use to describe what it means for us to follow Jesus
James and Wayne talk about what it has been like for them for the past few months: struggles, fears doubts and all!
Why do we even need to think about communications in church? Surely we can just leave that to the people who understand social media? This week Wayne and James share their learning on how vital it is do try to do communications well.
How do you make decisions and lead when you find yourself in entirely new circumstances? James and Wayne reflect on some helpful tips found in a book they read a few years ago and in a book written two thousand years ago.
Have you ever thought that the Sermon you just listened to might have missed the point? Listen to James and Wayne talking about how James did just that the other week.
With reports of anxiety increasing by 47% since the lockdown, James and Wayne talk about how God can help us whatever level of anxiety we are experiencing.
James asks Wayne about what it was like to be made redundant and how we can respond, whether we are a Christian or not, to the challenges that brings.
Wayne asks James about his family’s journey towards being a more peaceful home and what that could mean for those of us experiencing difficulty in lockdown.
James and Wayne discuss the impact lockdown might have on our mental health. What should we do and what strategies will help us? James asks Wayne to talk about his own experience and what he learned about God and himself.
In this episode James and Wayne explore, from their own stories and from the Bible, what it means to begin grieving well, before death and to grieve with God after death.
B&A MTV? \ E.06More Tea, Vicar?Episode 06: In an extended episode, we explore how Christians respond to the question, "Why does a good God allow suffering?" Wayne and James chat through the different angles.
B&A MTV? \ E.05More Tea, Vicar?Episode 05: Wayne and James talk about why some people do extraordinarily good things while others do some less good things.
B&A MTV? \ E.04More Tea, Vicar?Episode 04: In the midst of the challenges of responding to COVID - 19, James and Wayne talk about what it means for us not to worry when there’s lots more to be worried about than usual.
B&A MTV? \ E.03More Tea, Vicar?Episode 03: Life is full of uncertainty at the best of times, but as we all know and are experiencing, when the world gets weird, assurance can be hard to come by. Wayne and James talk about how we can be sure about what happens when we die.
B&A MTV? \ E.02More Tea, Vicar?Episode 02: In the light of recent and continuing developments with the Coronavirus / COVID19 pandemic, Wayne and James bring an update on what’s happening at B&A, practically and spiritually.
B&A MTV? \ E.01More Tea, Vicar?Episode 01 Picking up on Genesis 21, James and Wayne discuss what true repentance looks like when it comes to how we talk about the environment. They also talk about what it means to live a surrendered life and how we can begin to do that.